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by jorvi 12 days ago
Yandex divested their Russian side of the business and are Dutch.
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> Yandex divested their Russian side of the business and are Dutch

Source for Kagi switching to Nebius Group [1] from Yandex?

(I care deeply about the war in Ukraine. But I'm still a happy Kagi user. I would like the option to exclude Yandex from my results. It reduces the effectiveness of the search engine. But that's a choice I'd prefer to be able to make myself. I'm not sure if that's realistic to offer to every user at scale, however.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebius_Group

"In July 2024, in a transaction brought about by international sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and restrictions on foreign ownership, Nebius Group, the Dutch holding company that owned Yandex, sold its Russian assets to a group of Russian investors for a discounted price of US$5.3 billion"